thinking how grateful I am for the moon’sperfect beauty and also, oh! how richit is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile,leans against me and gazes upinto my face. As though I were just as wonderfulas the perfect moon.

Satchmo:

About the song, he said: “Seems to me it ain’t the world that’s so bad but what we’re doing to it, and all I’m saying is: see what a wonderful world it would be if only we’d give it a chance. Love, baby, love. That’s the secret …”